Hydrocarbon-burner



(No man.) W. L. GREGG.

V HYDROGARBON BURNER.

Patented Mar. 4, 1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM LAliIPAS GREGG, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HYDROCARBON-BURNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,614, dated March 4, 1884.

Application filed June 11, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM L. (lance, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hydrocarbon-Burners; and I do hereby declare thei'ollowing to be a full, clear, and exact tion of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertainsto make and use the same.

My invention consists in means for gasit'ying liquid naphtha or other volatile hydrocarbons, and in injecting said ga's over a flame, where it is ignited, the gaslbei'ng injected with such force that it acts as a blast to convey it when ignited through a line to l-he place where it is desired to utilize the heat thus generated.

In the accompanying drawing, which forms part of this specification, and which shows an apparatus suitable for carrying out the objects of the invention in section, A. is a tank or receiver, which may be of any suitable shape and dimensions, to which a liquid volatile hydrocarbon is supplied by the supplypipe a. Beneath this receiver is an oil-tank, B; to which petroleum or other suitable oil is fed by the supply-pipe b.

Directly under the hydrocarbon-receiver is a burner or burners, 0, fed by the petroleum, which furnishes the requisite heat for gasifying the hydrocarbon.

Within the receiver Av is a discharge-pipe, D, open at the top, extending nearly to the top of the receiver, and at the other end terminating in a nozzle, 0, outside of the receiver. The liquid hydrocarbon, being volatilized descri pv by the heat from the burner, rises to the top of the receiver and is forced out through the pipe D, the force with which it is discharged depending on the rapidity with which the hydrocarbon is volatilized.

Under the nozzle c of the gas-discharge pipe is a second burner, E, i'ed, preferably, by the oil-tank B. The gas, being driven forcibly through the nozzle 0, passes over the flame from the burner it, where it is ignited, and the ignited gas is forced with great force through the line F, located on the other side of the burner it, directly opposite the nozzle of the pipel), to the chamber (.11, under theboiler II or other receptacle to be heated.

The burner E is located outside of the line I! and chamber (2 in an uuiuclosed place, Where is always a sul'licient amount of air for the consumption of the gas.

The specific construction of the various parts shown may be varied without departing from my invention.

\Vhat I claim as my invention is The combination of the oil-tank B, the burners C E, fed therefrom, the receiver A, situated above the burner 0, the discharge pipe D, the nozzle of which is situated over the burner E, andthe ignited-gas conducting fine F, located in line with the nozzle of the pipe 1), substantially as and for set forth.

In testimony whereof I allix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

\VILLIAM LAMPAS GREGG. \Vitnesses:

R. 1W. GREINER, (l. W. HoLMns, Jr.

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